The action of 19 August 1916 was one of two attempts in 1916 by the German High Seas Fleet to engage elements of the British Grand Fleet, following the...
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HMS Queen Elizabeth (1913) (category World War I battleships of the United Kingdom)
as part of the Grand Fleet, and participated in the inconclusive action of 19 August 1916. Her service during the war generally consisted of routine patrols...
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HMS Nottingham (1913) (category Maritime incidents in 1916)
battles. The ship was sunk by the German submarine U-52 during the Action of 19 August 1916. The Town-class cruisers were intended to protect British merchant...
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Lion-class battlecruiser (category Ship classes of the Royal Navy)
Both ships were present during the inconclusive Action of 19 August 1916. The sisters spent the rest of the war on uneventful patrols in the North Sea;...
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HMS Barham (04) (category Use British English from August 2014)
Battle of Jutland during the First World War as part of the Grand Fleet. For the rest of the war, except for the inconclusive action of 19 August 1916, her...
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Active-class cruiser (category Ship classes of the Royal Navy)
Destroyer Flotilla and escorted the main body of the Grand Fleet during the action of 19 August. By the end of the year, the ship was assigned to the Dover...
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1916 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in August 1916: Battle of Verdun...
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Easter Rising (redirect from Easter Rising of 1916)
during Easter Week in April 1916. The Rising was launched by Irish republicans against British rule in Ireland with the aim of establishing an independent...
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The list of shipwrecks in August 1916 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during August 1916. For the sinking of the Japanese...
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Erich Raeder (category Articles with unsourced statements from August 2014)
Crescent") Friedrich August Cross, 1st and 2nd class (Oldenburg) Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with swords (5 June 1916) Military Merit...
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William Tennant (Royal Navy officer) (category Academics of the Royal College of Defence Studies)
Fleet in 1916, surviving the sinking of the latter during the action of 19 August 1916. He then returned to the Harwich Force to serve aboard the cruiser...
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HMS Falmouth (1910) (category Maritime incidents in 1916)
German submarines during the action of 19 August 1916. The Weymouth sub-class were slightly larger and improved versions of the preceding Bristol sub-class...
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Robert K., Castles of Steel. London, Jonathan Cape, 2004, p. 683. ISBN 0 224 04092 8 "1916 – 0744". Flight Magazine: 740. 31 August 1916. Archived from the...
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HMS Iron Duke (1912) (category World War I battleships of the United Kingdom)
however, after their opponents' submarines inflicted losses in the action of 19 August 1916: the British cruisers Nottingham and Falmouth were both torpedoed...
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HMS Onslaught (1915) (category World War I destroyers of the United Kingdom)
escort to other naval ships during the Action of 19 August 1916 and took part in anti-submarine operations. At the end of the war, Onslaught was withdrawn from...
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John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe (redirect from Admiral of the Fleet John Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe)
and commanded the Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jutland in May 1916 during the First World War. His handling of the fleet at that battle was controversial...
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Revenge-class battleship (category Ship classes of the Royal Navy)
the action of 19 August 1916, but the British and German fleets both withdrew before engaging each other directly, the British having lost a pair of light...
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United States on November 7, 1916. Incumbent Democratic President Woodrow Wilson narrowly defeated former associate justice of the Supreme Court Charles...
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HMS Revenge (06) (category World War I battleships of the United Kingdom)
She was not hit by any fire during the engagement. After the action of 19 August 1916, in which the Grand Fleet had lost two light cruisers to German...
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participated in the Actions of 19 August 1916 and 16 October 1917, as well as forming part of the distant support during the Second Battle of Heligoland Bight...
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HMS Benbow (1913) (category World War I battleships of the United Kingdom)
in August 1916 and April 1918 in attempts to catch the German High Seas Fleet in another major battle, but neither produced any significant action. After...
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war. The ship did not participate in the inconclusive Action of 19 August 1916 with the rest of her squadron. The squadron was briefly detached from the...
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SMS Ostfriesland (category Shipwrecks of the Virginia coast)
the Battle of Jutland on 31 May – 1 June 1916, the largest naval battle of the war. The ship also saw action in the Baltic Sea against the Russian Navy...
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HMS Royal Oak (08) (category World War I battleships of the United Kingdom)
withdrew after their opponents' submarines inflicted losses in the action of 19 August 1916: the British cruisers Nottingham and Falmouth were both torpedoed...
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SMS G192 (category Torpedo boats of the Imperial German Navy)
on 19 August 1916, when the High Seas Fleet sailed to cover a sortie of the battlecruisers of the 1st Scouting Group in the inconclusive Action of 19 August...
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HMS Ramillies (07) (redirect from HMS Ramillies (1916))
the Admiralty decided to install them on all four of her sisters. After the action of 19 August 1916, in which the Grand Fleet had lost two light cruisers...
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Nassau-class battleship (category World War I battleships of Germany)
embarked on another operation in the North Sea; in the resulting action of 19 August 1916, Westfalen was torpedoed by the British submarine HMS E23, but...
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however, after their opponents' submarines inflicted losses in the action of 19 August 1916: the British cruisers Nottingham and Falmouth were both torpedoed...
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The Battle of Columbus, also known as the Burning of Columbus or the Columbus Raid, began on March 9, 1916, as a raid conducted by remnants of Pancho Villa's...
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1916 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1916. 1916 (MCMXVI) was...
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